Voice for toys.



B. E. LLOYD.

VOICE FOR TOYS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 7. I917. RENEWED SEPT. 18. I918.

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WITNESSES IIVI/E/VTOR fiA/r/Z 1/044 %& By M A TTOR/l/EYS BUEL'I' E.LLOYD, 015 WEST HOBQKEN, NEW" JERSEY.

VOICE FOR TOYS.

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specification of Letters Patent.

Patented their. 223, M 12 5.

Application flied December 7, 1917, Serial No. 206,060. RenewedEteptember 1B, 1918. Serial No. 254,677.

To all whom it ma concern."

Be it known lat I, BURT E. LLOYD, a subject of the Kin of Great Britain,and a resident of West oboken, in the county of Hudson and State of NewJersey, have in vented a new and Improved Voice for Toys, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a sound device for. toys, and relates moreparticularly to improvements in a Ina-ma voice or other device in whicha compressible element is employed for forcing air through a reed forthe production of sound.

The invention has for its general objects to improve and simplify theconstruction of devices of this character so as to be reliable andefficient in use, comparatively easy to manufacture, and of durable andsubstantial design.

A more specific object of the invention is the provision of a novelconstruction which embodies a hollow, flexible hemisphere or half of arubber ball which forms part of the air-compressing box or bellows.

Still another object of the invention is to provide a novel arrangementof air-compressing or pump box and sound box, the

reed being set in an opening in a wall be tween the boxes.

With such objects in view, and others which will appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention comprises various novel features ofconstruction and arrangement of parts which will be set forth withparticularity in the following description and claims appended hereto.

In the accompanying drawing. which illustrates certain embodiments ofthe invention and wherein similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views,

Figure 1 is a side view of the device;

Figs. 2 and 3 are opposite end views thereof;

Fig. 4 is a central longitudinal section;

Fig. 5 is a central longitudinal section of a modified form ofsound-producing device;

Fig. 6 is a side View thereof; and

Fig. 7 is an end view.

Referring to the drawing, 1 designates a cylindrical body which ispreferably a piece of 'mailing tube stock and into one end thereof isset a ring 2 of the same material, and fitted around the portion of thering 2 that projects out of the casing 1 is a half section 3 of a rubberball. The parts 1, 2 and 3 are glued together so as to be permanentlyattached, and fitted and glued in the ring 2 a disk 1 which cooperateswith the ring and rubber hemispherical diaphragm 3 to constitute anair-compressing or pump box 5. A reed 6 is set into an opening 7 in thedisk and glued at such opening so as to be permanently attached. The airforced through the reed causes the lip 8 to produce a sound. On the disk1 is glued a short ring 9 in which is fitted and glued a disk 10 wherebythe ring 9 and disk 10 cooperate with the wall 4: to form a sound-box11. For articulating the sound an opening or mouth 12 is formed in thedisk 9, and around this mouth is a rubber lip 13, and through this lippass valve disks 1 1 and 15 carried by a stem 16. which passes throughthe diaphragm 3 and carries a button or knob 17 on its outer end.Normally the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 1, and when thediaphragm 3 is compressed air is forced through the reed G and thesounds are articulated by the valve disks 11 and 15 successively passingthrough the lip 13. Surroundin the cylinder 1 is an outer cylinder 18,which is of mailing tube stock, and which is of such length as tocircumferentially embrace the edge of the hemispherical dia phragm 3 toassist in keeping the diaphragm attached to the body of the device. Thisouter cylinder 18 is loose from the body of the device and is adapted tobe set into a stuffed body of a doll to form a chamber into which thedevice can be fitted, and when the device is fitted into the outercasing 15% the latter embraces the edge of the diaphragm 3 and assistsin holding it etfec tively in place.

In the construction shown in Figs. 5 to 7 an nnarticulated sound isproduced since no valves and lip are employed. The sound box is made upof a ring 19, hemispherical diaphragm 20 and disk 21, the ring 19 beingfitted in a cylindrical casing 22. (otiperating with the disk 21 is asecond disk 23 fitted in the casing 22 to cooperate with the casing anddisk 21 to form a sound box 24. In the disk 21 is a reed 25. Bycompressing the diaphragm 20 air is forced through the reed, whereby asound is produced which passes out from the sound box through an opening26 in the disk 23.

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From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawing, the advantages of the construction and anethod of operationwill be readily understood by those skilled in the art to which theinvention appertains, and while I have described the principle ofoperation, together with the device which I now consider to be the bestembodiment thereof, I desire to have it understood that the device shownis merely illustrative and that such changes may be made when desired asfall within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

1. A sound producing device for toys, including a hemisphericalresilient diaphragm, a tubular member fitted into the open side of thediaphragm, and another tubular member fitting around the first, with itsedge set in from the inner edge of the first-mentioned member, wherebythe edge of the secondmentioned member forms a shoulder for receivingthe edge of the diaphragm.

2. A sound producing device comprising a hemispherical resilientdiaphragm, and a body having a reduced end fitting into the open side ofthe diaphragm and formed with an annular shoulder on which the edge ofthe diaphragm bears.

3. In a sound producing device, the combination of a casing, a ringfitted therein and projecting from the casing to form a shoulder, and ahemispherical, resilient diaphragm fastened to the shoulder, with anouter casing removably fitting around the llloptea at this patent may bedttained for five cents each, by addressing the Washington, n. W

aaeaaoa first-mentioned casing and embracing the edge of the diaphragm.

4. A sound producing device comprising a body having a circumferentialshoulder, a hemispherical, flexible diaphragm, a wall extending acrossthe body to cooperate with the diaphragm to form a pump chamber, and areed in the wall of the pump chamber.

5. A device of the class described comprising a casing, a ring ofuniform diameter fitted in the casing and projecting partly therefrom, adiaphragm having its edge fastened to the edge of the casing and to theprojecting part of the ring, and means in the casing for producing asound when the diaphragm is compressed.

6. A device of the class described comprising a casing, a ring fitted inthe casing and projecting partly therefrom, a diaphragm having its edgefastened to the edge of the casing and to the projecting part of thering, a disk fitted in the ring, a reed carried by the disk, and a soundbox at the side of the disk opposite from the diaphragm and having anopening through which sound is emitted.

7. A. device of the class described including a chamber having aflexible portion arranged to be actuated for causing air to flow intoand out of the chamber, one wall of the chamber being provided with anopening, and a reed fastened in the opening, the said reed being in theform of a channeled body open at its ends, and a vibratory member at theinner end of the body and within the chamber.

BURT E. LLOYD.

commissioner of Eatentt,

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